INTERVIEWSonallah Ibrahim: Calling Things
What They Are
interview by Camilo Gomez-Rivas

A TRANSLATOR CALLED DENYS
JOHNSON-DAVIESDenys Johnson-Davies – 60 years of Arabic literature in translation Roger Allen – In celebrationKhaled Mattawa – Such a standard bearer
Mark Linz – A unique and long-lasting legacyPeter Clark – An enormous debtPaul Starkey – Putting modern Arabic writing on the mapHumphrey Davies – He made me a translatorWilliam M. Hutchins – Hats off to the dean of translators!
Musa al-Halool – Not even a typo
Brahim Oulahyane – With Denys in Marrakesh
Margaret Obank – First and foremost an art, not a science

Saleh Snoussi – Abu Saleem’s Prison – an excerpt from a novel, trans. William M
HutchinsJad El Hage – A tale, Cats up a
PoleNael el-Toukhy – A short story The Machos, trans. Wiam El-TamamiHassan Najmi – An excerpt from the novel Gertrude, trans. Nancy Roberts

BOOKS IN BRIEF – The Mahfouz Centennial Library, Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories, The World Through the Eyes of Angels, Arabian Tales: Baghdad-on-Thames, Sarmada, The Night Counter, Bar Balto, The Conquest of Andalusia, We Are All Equally Far From Love, Taxi, Gathering The Tide; An Anthology of Contemporary Gulf Poetry, The War on Idigna, Poet in Andalucia, In the Presence of Absence, Absent Presence, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, Balconies; A Mediterranean Memoir, Voices From Iraq; A People's History, Standing By the Ruins; Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon, The Road to Tahrir; Frontline Images by Six Young Egyptian Photographers, Reflections on Islamic Art, Cairo; My City, Our Revolution, Immigrant Narratives